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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 6603a7ab73..68bca1a29d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ they made it. Here `<name>` is the person's display name (for example ``Com M Itter'') and `<email>` is the person's email address -(``cm@example.com''). `LT` and `GT` are the literal less-than (\x3c) +(``\cm@example.com''). `LT` and `GT` are the literal less-than (\x3c) and greater-than (\x3e) symbols. These are required to delimit the email address from the other fields in the line. Note that `<name>` and `<email>` are free-form and may contain any sequence @@ -442,7 +442,9 @@ their syntax. ^^^^^^ The `from` command is used to specify the commit to initialize this branch from. This revision will be the first ancestor of the -new commit. +new commit. The state of the tree built at this commit will begin +with the state at the `from` commit, and be altered by the content +modifications in this commit. Omitting the `from` command in the first commit of a new branch will cause fast-import to create that commit with no ancestor. This @@ -492,7 +494,9 @@ existing value of the branch. `merge` ^^^^^^^ -Includes one additional ancestor commit. If the `from` command is +Includes one additional ancestor commit. The additional ancestry +link does not change the way the tree state is built at this commit. +If the `from` command is omitted when creating a new branch, the first `merge` commit will be the first ancestor of the current commit, and the branch will start out with no files. An unlimited number of `merge` commands per @@ -558,8 +562,12 @@ A `<path>` string must use UNIX-style directory separators (forward slash `/`), may contain any byte other than `LF`, and must not start with double quote (`"`). -If an `LF` or double quote must be encoded into `<path>` shell-style -quoting should be used, e.g. `"path/with\n and \" in it"`. +A path can use C-style string quoting; this is accepted in all cases +and mandatory if the filename starts with double quote or contains +`LF`. In C-style quoting, the complete name should be surrounded with +double quotes, and any `LF`, backslash, or double quote characters +must be escaped by preceding them with a backslash (e.g., +`"path/with\n, \\ and \" in it"`). The value of `<path>` must be in canonical form. That is it must not: |